According to online reports, photos and video, the group was seen marching with masks along the morning market, atop the Cascades Park bridge and later gathered outside the Old Florida Capitol.
White Supremacist group practices riot-control drills in in Tallahassee in leaked video
This leaked video shows members of the Patriot Front organization apparently practicing riot-control maneuvers at Williams Landing on Lake Talquin.
Tallahassee Democrat
About two dozen members of the hate group Patriot Front, a Texas-based white supremacist and neo-fascist hate group, were spotted in Florida’s capital city Saturday.
According to online reports, photos and video, the group was seen marching with masks over their faces along the Tallahassee Downtown Market, atop the Cascades Park bridge and later gathered outside the Old Florida Capitol.
They placed stickers that said “Nationalist Lifestyle” and “White N Radical” on light poles downtown, according to photos posted by the Leon County Democratic Party on Facebook.
“Racist hate has no place in Tallahassee,” a party representative wrote on Facebook.
Members of the group were wearing khakis, hats and white balaclavas, which cover the face except for the eyes and mouth.
“Down with white supremacy! PF out of Tally!” wrote the Tallahassee Community Action Committee in another Facebook post.
A Tallahassee Police Department watch commander and Capitol Police officer said they did not make contact with Patriot Front. Capitol Police just monitored them as they took a photo in front of the Old Capitol, the officer said.
Saturday was a more brazen display than the group’s last time in the Tallahassee area.
Two years ago, videos were leaked of a dozen or so Patriot Front members practicing military-style drills at Williams Landing on Lake Talquin and routine calisthenics at Lafayette Park near Ingleside Drive and Gadsden Street.
The Texas-based Patriot Front broke off from another group, Vanguard America, following 2017’s Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which one woman was killed after a white supremacist plowed his car into a group of counter-protesters.
The group, which dropped Vanguard America’s Nazi imagery in favor of red-white-and-blue symbolism, is known for holding “flash demonstrations” in several big cities that were filmed and used for propaganda purposes.
In December 2022, Patriot Front began adding more explicit antisemitic phrases into their propaganda, and the group distributed antisemitic propaganda on at least 431 occasions in 2023, making up 38 percent of the year’s antisemitic propaganda incidents, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Ana Goñi-Lessan, state watchdog reporter for the USA TODAY Network – Florida, can be reached at agonilessan@gannett.com.
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